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Her interest in avant-garde entertainment dates back to her modern languages degree.
I went to university and all I got was this lousy double-honours law and languages degree.
It was October 1978 and I was on my year abroad as part of my languages degree.
Having just spent nine months in Bonn as part of my languages degree, I never experienced the faultless German rail network described by Helen Pidd (G2, 26 August).
So few young people are choosing a languages degree that in the next decade as many as 40% of university language departments are likely to close.
My first intention was to do a foreign languages degree, but that meant a year abroad and I couldn't just up and leave; by then, the kids were in school.
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All but medicine, science, engineering and modern languages degrees could stop receiving state subsidies, it said.
An earlier version said that Westminster, Leicester and Heriot-Watt offered no single or joint-honours languages degrees.
The number of entrants to taught postgraduate languages degrees is only 1,000 entrants across both full and part-time.
Professor Sir Leszek's comments come at a time when the number of students taking languages degrees has reached a record low and English schools are not ready for the forthcoming curriculum change that will make languages compulsory at primary level.
But that is not the full story: there are also fewer language degrees to choose from, and more students now want different kinds of language degree.
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